Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.